Fastening for wheels and cranks.



No. 738,065. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1903. J.V.PUGH.

FASTENING FOR WHEELS AND GRANKS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 3. 1903.

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Patented September 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

.IOIIN VERNON PUGH, OF COVENTRY, ENGLAND.

FASTENING FOR WHEELS AND CRANKS.

;E?EG1F1CATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,065, dated September 1, 1903.

Application filed March 3, 1903. Serial No. 145.955. (No model-P Z (0Z7, whom it may concern:

3e it known that 1, JOHN VERNON Peon, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Primrose Hill House, Coventry, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastenings for )Vheels and Uranks, of which the following is a specificaother perfectly or tightly.

tion.

My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in attaching wheels, cranks, and other parts of machines and appliances to their axles and shafts; and my invention relates to axles and shafts having in their ends or at the parts to which the wheels, cranks, or the like are to be connected aseries of longitudinal grooves or keyways, the bosses of the wheels, cranks, or the like having in them corresponding series of internally-projecting ribs, keys, or projections for taking into and engaging with the grooves or keyways in the axles or shafts. Heretofore it has been necessary to prevent backlash or shakiness to make the internally-projecting ribs or keys of the boss of the wheel or the like the exact counterpart of the grooves in the axle or shaft, or, in other words, to make the engaging parts fit each Consequently the putting together of the parts has been attended with difficulty and wear, which latter renders the attachment defective.

My invention has for its object to permit the internally-projecting ribs or keys to be made somewhat smaller than the grooves, so as to make the engaging parts fit freely, and thereby facilitate the putting together of the parts and at the same time to obtain a connection wholly free from shakiness or backlash and which is capable of adjustment to compensate for wear.

In carrying my invention into effect I make on one face of the wheel or other part to be attached to the longitudinally-grooved. shaft or axle a series of face ratchet-teeth, and I make face ratchet-teeth on a collar or other part to be attached to the shaft or axle, so that when the parts are brought together on the shaft or axle (the face ratchet-teeth of the one part acting on the face ratchet-teeth of the other part) the two parts mutually force each other in opposite rotative directions on the shaft or axle, and the internally-projecting ribs or keys of the two parts on the shaft or axle are thereby made, respectively, to bind on opposite sides of the grooves in the said shaft or axle.

In the accompanying drawings I have illus trated my invention in connection with the attaching ofa crank and chain-wheel or chainwheel-carrying arms of a velocipede to the crank-axle of the same.

Figure 1 represents one-half in side elevation and one-half in vertical section, a portion of the crank and chain-wheel-carrying arms fitted to the end of the crank-axle. Fig. 2 represents in side elevation, and Fig. 3 in end elevation, the chain-wheel-carrying arms detached; and Figs. 4 and 5 represent in side and end elevation, respectively, the axle end of the crank detached. Fig. 6 represents, partly in side elevation and partly in section, a modification in the arrangement of parts where the chain wheel carrying arms are made in one piece with the crank; and Figs. '7, 8, i), and 10 are the two parts of the modiiied arrangement detached. Figs. 11 to 16, both inclusive, represent further modifications of my invention hereinafter particularly described.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings.

I will first describe the arrangement Figs. 1 to 5, both inclusive. a is the crank-axle the ends of which (one only is shown and marked (F) are longitudinally grooved or fluted in the ordinary way. I) is the ehain-wheel-carrying part, which consists of a central boss, from which project radial arms, to which the chain wheel or ring is fitted, as is usual. The internally-proj eeting ribs or keys b of the boss of the part Z2, (see Fig. 3,) as well as the internally-projecting ribs or keys 0 of the boss of the crank c, are made of a size proper to fit easily or freely the grooves of the end a of the axle a. Toprevent shakiness or backlash in the parts, due to their easy or free fitting on the axle, I provide the outer face of the boss of the part Z) with face ratchet-teeth b (see Fig. 2,) and I provide the inner face of the crank with face ratchet-teeth 0 (see Fig. 4,) so that when the ratchet-toothed face 0 of the crank c is made to bear against the ratchet-toothed face b of the part b, the two parts mutually force each other in opposite rotative directionsthat is to say, the ratchetteeth of the crank tend to turn the part b in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3, while the face ratchet-teeth b of the partb, acting on the face ratchet-teeth c of the crank c, tend to turn the crank in the opposite direction or in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 5, so that the internally-projecting ribs or keys of the two parts bind on opposite sides of the grooves in the end a of the axle, and a firm or unshakable looking or connection of the parts results. The parts are preserved in close contact with each other by a screw-nut d, screwed onto the reduced screwed end a of the axle a.

\Vhere a combined crank and chain-wheelcarrying arms are employed, as in Fig. 6, I first pass onto the grooved end a of the axle a a ring or collar 6, (shown separately in Figs. 7 and 8,) the said ring or collar 6 having internally-projecting teeth 6 (see Fig. 8) and face ratchet-teeth e on its outer side, as is best seen in Fig. 7. The other parts and the action of the arrangement differ in no essential respect from that described with reference to the arrangement Figs. 1 to 5.

I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself 'to keeping the parts together by means of a screw-nut cl, taking on a screwed end a of the axle a, as an internally-screwed collar,ferrule, or ring with a right-hand screwthread in one end and a left-hand screw-thread in the other end may be employed to engage with corresponding external screw-threads on the boss of the chain-wheel-carrying part b .and the boss of the crank 0, respectively, as

is illustrated in Figs. 11 and 12, the said internally-screwed collar, ferrule, or ring being marked 1' in the said Figs. 11 and 12.

Instead of obtaining the tightening of the chain-wheelcarrying part and the crank on the grooved or fluted crank-axle by the face ratchet-teeth on the two parts, respectively, the said tightening action may be effected partly by the face ratchet-teeth and partly by making the grooves or flutes in the axle and the corresponding ribs or keys in the bosses of the-parts to be connected thereto spiral instead of straight, as is usual. In Figs. 13 and 14c I have represented two arrangements showing the combination of face ratchet-teeth with spiral grooves or flutes. In Fig. 13 the engaging faces of the ratchet-teeth are arranged to cross the direction of the flutes or grooves, and in Fig. 14 the engaging faces of the ratchet-teeth are in the same direction as the grooves or flutes, but at a greater angle, or the tightening action may be effected wholly by employing spiral grooves or flutes in the end of the axle and plain projections on the meeting faces of the chain-wl1eel-carrying part and crank, as is represented in Figs. 15 and 16. lVith these arrangements the crank c and chain-wheel-carrying parts I) are fitted together before being passed onto the end a of the axle a, and are passed onto and are removed from off the axle, when desired, together. In Fig. 15 the chain-wheelcarrying part b and crank c are forced together and the two parts thereby made to bind on opposite sides of the grooves or flutes in the end a of the axle a by means of a screwnut (1 taking on the screwed end a of the axle a, and in Fig. 16 the parts are made to bind on the end a of the axle a by the partial turning of the right and left handed internally-screwed collar, ferrule, or ring '2', by which the crank c and chain-wheel-carrying part Z) are held together.

I have adopted the title Fastening for wheels and cranks as a convenient one. The invention may be employed with facility in many other connections which it is needless to herein specify.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a member having grooves, a second member provided with internal ribs or keys extending into said grooves and provided 011 its outer face with ratchetteeth, a third member provided with internal ribs or keys also extending into said grooves and provided on its inner face withratchetteeth engaging those of said second member, and means for holding the sets of ratchetteeth in engagement.

2. The combination with a member having longitudinal grooves, a second member provided with internal ribs or keys extending into said grooves and having ratchet-teeth on its outer face, the pitch of which is at an angle to the direction of said grooves, a third member also having internal ribs or keys extending into said grooves and provided 011 its inner face with ratchet-teeth similar to and engaging said other ratchet-teeth, and means for holding the two sets of ratchetteeth in engagement.

3. The combination with a member having grooves, a second member provided with internal ribs or keys extendin g into said grooves,

external screw-threads, and ratchet-teeth on its outer face, a third member provided with a hub on said first member, said hub also having internal ribs or keys extending into said grooves, external screw-threads on its inner end portion, and ratchet-teeth on its inner face engaging said other ratchet-teeth, and a thimble having its end portions oppositely screw-threaded internally and engaging the first-mentioned screw-threaded portions to hold the two sets of ratchet-teeth in engagement.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J OI-IN VERNON PUGH. \Vitnesses:

RICHARD SKERRETT, WILLIAM J. Bowman. 

